Lectures in Criticism: Odile Cazenave
You are invited to Lectures in Criticism:
Odile Cazenave
Boston University
“Afropean” Literature:
Beyond the Fashioning of a New Term
When: April 19, 2012 at 5PM
Where: Photonics 906 (8 St. Mary’s Street)
A reception will follow the lecture.
Prof. Cazenave is Professor of French at Boston University. Her research interests focus on the impact of age, gender and location on the writing and reception of postcolonial literary and filmic narratives in French. Her publications include Femmes rebelles: Naissance d’un nouveau roman africain au féminin (Rebellious Women) and Afrique sur Seine: Une nouvelle génération de romanciers africains à Paris (A New Generation of African Writers in Paris). Prof. Cazenave has written on a large number of Francophone writers and a wide range of topics related to gender and sexuality, history and memory, the local and the global, representations of postcolonial violence, the diaspora, as well as issues of displacement, migration, and citizenship in a global world.